Definition

• probably allied to pilfer, means money or riches, but it often conveys the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless.

  It was in use as early as the beginning of the sixteenth century, and Spenser, in the Fairie Queene, 1590 (iii. ix. 4), has the line, "But all his mind is set on mucky pelf."

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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